Last name: Toma. Recorded in over two hundred spelling forms ranging from the British Tomas and Thomas, the Italian Tommasi and Toma, the German Thom, Thomas, Thoma, Thumm, and Thome, the Slavonic Tomaschek, the Russian Fominov, the Belorussian Tomich and Khomich. the Swedish Thomasson, and many, many, others, the origin is Aramaic.
FACS is an abbreviation for a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. This is a very prestigious honor only bestowed upon surgeons after completing stringent residency requirements.
Fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) works by imparting a charge to cells based on the presence of a fluorescence label which, in the presence of an electric field, deflects the flow of the cell medium to separate flasks for labeled and unlabeled cells. How it works:[4]